Quotes About Narrative

Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

I am reading Ian Rankins book Doors Open and am enjoying his dark Edinburgh narrative will rate soon once I have read it. I am also a fan of Jane Austen and have visited her Museum House in Chawton, Hampshire every year for the last three years. My Favourite book is Sense and Sensibility.

Most information doesn't constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that's a very different concept from information.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

real. The art of filmmaking is being able to eliminate all the bullshit and repetitiveness of real life for the sake of telling a smooth, clear story.

Those who commit the murders write the reports

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas consideraron significativo.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas han considerado significativo.

Q: Why write about slavery? Haven't we had enough stories about slavery? Why do we need another one? A: I could have written about upper middle class white people who feel sad sometimes, but there's a lot of competition.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

Only when we see the full pictures, can we truly understand our whole story.

Stories have always been told, from the very beginning of existence; I'm just carrying on this tradition.

Underpinning it all was the love for the characters, creation and progression.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.

Because the decisions you make today determine the story you'll tell tomorrow.

Behind every great story there's always another story.